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NGC1708
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 5:3:27.0
Declination: +52:50:0
Constellation: CAM
Visual Magnitude:
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1831
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: Cl, vL, pRi, lC, st L and S
Sub-type: OCL
Corwin's Notes
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NGC 1708 is a large cluster of stars of magnitudes 10 to 14, about 20 arcmin
by 12 arcmin in size, and elongated north to south. It is centered about 7
arcmin southeast of JH's position, but nevertheless is unmistakeable.
This is one of RNGC's "nonexistent" clusters. Personally, I don't see how
they could have missed it.
Steve's Notes
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NGC 1708
18" (11/26/03): at 115x, this is a huge, triangular group of ~80 stars, roughly 20'x12', extended N-S with the base of this triangle on the south side and the vertex at the north end. Surprisingly, this scattered group is fairly well detached in the field and appears visually to be a cluster. Includes a number of mag 10.5-11.5 stars. The group is unconcentrated and most of the stars are situated along the perimeter with two large starless interior regions (larger one on the south side).